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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 8391123" data-attributes="member: 7031982">Some of the defenders of racial ASIs are arguing from a stance of &quot;roleplaying moral superiority&quot;.&nbsp; (For example, that people who want floating ASIs are just powergamers, or that roleplaying underdogs with sub-optimal stats is fun.)And then one of their criticisms of floating ASIs is that it's leading us inexorably toward a world where there is no mechanical differentiation between races, that the only difference is fluff (physical description, etc.).That feels like a contradiction to me.&nbsp; The first argument is, &quot;Why are you so obsessed with mechanics?&nbsp; Enjoy the roleplaying!&quot;&nbsp; And the second argument is, &quot;I need mechanics!&quot;(In some ways this is similar to the thing I observed before, how both sides are in effect saying &quot;+1 is too small to make much of a difference in the thing you care about, but it's a huge factor in the thing I care about.&quot;)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bill Zebub, post: 8391123, member: 7031982"] Some of the defenders of racial ASIs are arguing from a stance of "roleplaying moral superiority". (For example, that people who want floating ASIs are just powergamers, or that roleplaying underdogs with sub-optimal stats is fun.) And then one of their criticisms of floating ASIs is that it's leading us inexorably toward a world where there is no mechanical differentiation between races, that the only difference is fluff (physical description, etc.). That feels like a contradiction to me. The first argument is, "Why are you so obsessed with mechanics? Enjoy the roleplaying!" And the second argument is, "I need mechanics!" (In some ways this is similar to the thing I observed before, how [I]both[/I] sides are in effect saying "+1 is too small to make much of a difference in the thing you care about, but it's a huge factor in the thing I care about.") [/QUOTE]

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